An engineer, by the name of Victor Hatherley, has had his thumb chopped off in a murderous attack. Hatherley had been employed by a shadowy German figure to repair a hydraulic press, and when the engineer had found out too much its operation. First published in the Strand Magazine, Mar. 1892, with 8 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

A greek interpreter was kidnapped and forced to translate some documents by two mysterious Greek men. First published in the Strand Magazine, Sept. 1893, with 8 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

An unknown thief steals an important naval treaty from a Foreign Office clerk; Sherlock Holmes sets out to find it. An unknown thief steals an important naval treaty from the office of Mr. Percy Phelps, a Foreign Office clerk. Phelps's distress gives him a brain fever that lasts for nine weeks. First published in the Strand Magazine in two parts, first part in Oct. 1893 with 8 illustrations by Sidney Paget, second part in Nov. 1893 with 7 illustrations by Paget.

Miss Mary Sutherland's fiancee went missing and she asked Holmes for help. Little did she know, her strict stepfather had something to do with this...

A previously convicted felon is arrested for the theft of The Blue Carbuncle, a priceless jewel. But the jewel is later found in a goose's crop. Holmes tracks down the people related to the goose to find the real thief of the Blue Carbuncle. First published in the Strand Magazine, Jan. 1892, with 8 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Reginald Musgrave visits Holmes after the disappearance of two of his domestic staff, Rachel Howells, a maid, and Richard Brunton, the longtime butler. Brunton vanished without his belongings after being dismissed for secretly reading a family document, the Musgrave Ritual. Brunton's former lover, Rachel Howells escaped through a window after being hysterical abour Brunton's missing. Her footprints led to the edge of the mere, and ended there. Musgrave had the mere dredged, but only a sack containing some rusty, mangled bits of metal, and some coloured stones or glass were found. Holmes looked upon the case not as three mysteries, but as one.

Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a young bride to be who fears that she'll be murdered. Helen Stoner, the stepdaughter of Sir Grimesby Roylott, has reason to believe that her stepfather killed her sister-she just doesn't know how. And the only clue is the last word from the dead sister ; "The Speckled Band" First published in the Strand Magazine, Feb. 1892, with 9 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Pycroft is a stockbroker's clerk who had then been taken on by the firm of Mawson and Williams in the City of London. Tthe firm took him on without a face-to-face interview, with arrangements made via the postal system. The job is a good one, and the wages offered more than reasonable. He also receives another job offer, when Arthur Pinnar, of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company visits him in person. The Franco-Midland Hardware Company has nothing to do with stockbroking, and deals with hardware stores on the continent, but the terms of employment are better than those offered by Mawson and Williams. So despite the job being in Birmingham rather than London, Pycroft accepts the new job offer. Quickly though, things don't feel right to Pycroft; and the fact that Arthur Pinnar asks Pycroft not to resign from Mawson and Williams, stating that an argument had left ill-feeling between the two company's. In Birmingham, things are also not what Pycroft expected. The offices are dusty and unsuitable for the expected work, and the work given to Pycroft by Harry Pinnar, Arthur's brother, is meaningless. Pycroft then discovers that Arthur Pinnar and Harry Pinnar are the same person... First published in the Strand Magazine, Mar. 1893, with 7 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Mysterious letters each with KKK signs and five orange pips, followed by mysterious death of the Openshaw family who received them one by one. This has caused Sherlock Holmes' anger and makes him determined in solving it. First published in the Strand Magazine, Nov. 1891, with 6 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Mr. St. Clair disappeared in front of his wife, inside an opium den. Holmes investigates this missing man case in disguise. A shocking truth revealed; the missing man has been living a double life... First published in the Strand Magazine, Dec. 1891, with 10 illustrations by Sidney Paget.